Euro-Mongolian Cooperation for Modernisation of Engineering Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Euro-Mongolian Cooperation for Modernisation of Engineering Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project’s objectives were to adapt, innovate and modernise existing curricula in the three universities; to develop new e-learning courses, to test innovated curricula and to disseminate the results. The summarised results of the project are:-Three innovated and one completely new curriculum developed and accredited at the three Mongolian universities;-27 e-learning courses developed within these curricula;-Three newly established laboratories with modern equipment purchased with Erasmus+ project grant money;-Computer laboratories with high-capacity computers, projectors, cameras, a printer and smart and white boards;-Pilot test performed with 74 students involved;-Field trial with 165 students involved; -Wider-range collaboration of Mongolian universities with industry organizations, stakeholders and entities.Impact: Institutional level: HEI with modernized curricula, designed to meet the labour market needs laboratories equipped with new equipment; experts from enterprises involved in the innovation of laboratories and in teaching activities; young specialists better prepared for the labour market and as a result higher employability – all alumni following the new curricula in 2021 were employed by Mongolian companies.National level: improvement of HE in Mongolia following the national priorities and strategic development: Action Plan for 2021-2030 of Mongolia’s Long-Term Development Policy and the “Vision-2050”. The successful implementation of learning outcomes approach in design courses and the credit system encouraged the curricular reform in other areas of HE in Mongolia and the credit transfer system was adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports and applied by the public universities in Mongolia. Six state-owned universities have already signed cooperation agreements, exchanged courses, and agreed on credit transfer.

Project Website

http://eu-mong.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 964145 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA & Country: BG

Project Partners

• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA
• NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• EKH GOLOMTIIN ILCH
• POLITECNICO DI TORINO
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN
• INES PLATEFORME FORMATION & EVALUATION